HuffPo still pushing antivax nonsense

HuffPo still pushing antivax nonsense

HuffPo still pushing antivax nonsense

I used to write for the Huffington Post, an online news and blog collective. It was started by Arianna Huffington during the Bush Era as a response to all the far-right online media. I didn't agree with a lot of what was on there -- I am more centrist -- but at the time I thought it was necessary.

Then they started to promote far-left New Age nonsense, and when it came to vaccinations, HuffPo started posting all kinds of opinions that amounted to nothing more than out-and-out health threats. While they do sometimes post a counter-argument, it's still almost all alt-med, all the time.

Yes, seriously. And he does it while spouting quite a few of the standard antivax memes, like the flu won't be that bad (maybe he should consult with Dr. Joe Albietz, who I'm sure would disagree) and my favorite, we don't know how well the vaccine will work. In fact, the vaccine for Swine Flu is based on many decades of research on how vaccines are produced, and will certainly work better than Dr. Lipman's homeopathic "medicine" which we know is just plain old water, and totally useless. I'll note that on his own site he promotes acupuncture and chiropractic, too.

So, as always, don't listen to people like Lipman, or even to me when it comes to this stuff. Instead, go to your doctor, a board-certified and science-based doctor, and ask them about the H1N1 swine flu, and see if they recommend getting the shot. And yes, as soon as it's available here I'll get vaccinated, as will my wife and daughter. We talked to a real doctor about it, and we understand the threat of H1N1, and we understand what vaccines do.